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WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt today for the first time outlined this government's an international post-war security organization
to be built around “a council, annually elected by the fully
| representative body of all nations.”
In a statement issued shortly after he met with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and post-war planning experts of the state department, the President said this gov-
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FOR 4TH TER}
Convention Opening Tonigh To Ignore Wallace in Resolution.
By EARL RICHERT Indiana Democrats will indors President Roosevelt for a fourtl termh by passage of a resolution a their state convention at the Coliseum tomorrow, it was learnec today. ? The resolution significantly will} ® make no mention of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Party leaders said that although}: no specific expression would be made against the vice president, it was no secret that Mr. Wallace does not have enthusiastic support from the Indiana segment of the Democratic party.
Many Oppose Wallace
Two men who will be delegates to the national convention said th while the Indiana delegation will be solidly for President Roosevelt more than half of the delegates] to be chosen at the district caucuses tonight and at the convention toother than Mr. Wallace nominated for the vice presidency. Joseph Suelzer of Ft. Wayne,
which open the convention program. Delegates at-Large Eight delegates-at-large wil be chosen at the convention tomorrow,
D. Tucker, 2352 Broadway.
each with one! of a vote since the state is a only four dele-gates-at-large.
‘IEKE DAY’ SET
Hoosier Heroes—
SECOND AIRMAN IN FAMLY 1S KILLED
Scheduled to be named delegates-at-large, with one or two possible last minute changes, were Governor Schricker, Senator Samuel D. Jackson, State Chairman Fred Bays, National Committeeman Frank McHale, War Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt, former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, National Farmers’ Purchases TuesCommitteewoman Mrs. Samuel D. : Ralston and Daniel J. Tobin, inter-| day to Honor Hoosier national president of the Teamsters union. eden ddiopetes Who Slew 35 Japs. from the 11th district (Marion| Honoring a Hoosier farm son, county) were Reginald H. Sullivan, | Philip “Zeke” Givan of Dearborn former mayor, and William E.|county, and all other “Zekes" fightClauer, long-time county party|ing for freedom, Indiana’s rural leader. families will have their own fifth Less Enthusiasm Noted war loan bond buying day on “Zeke Day” Tuesday. Pre-convention enthusiasm Wwas| Proclaimed by Governor Schricker, noticeably lower than for the Res|«Zeke Day” will dramatize the acpublican state convention because|tion of Marine Pfc. Givan, who of lack of contests for the major| mowed down 35 Japs in one battle offices, Governor Schricker and) on Kwajalein atoll with a rifle that Senator Jackson being unopposed somebody's war bonds bought. for the senatorial and gubernatorial] And when his officers acclaimed nominations, respectively. him a hero, the 19-year-old farm Headquarters for the governoripgy js ‘said to have answered, and senator were opened in adjoin-|«ghucks, it wasn't much.” His paring rooms at the Claypool hotel this | ents, Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Givan, live morning, but neither was on hand on a farm near Lawrenceburg. to greet delegates. Indiana moved closer to its $281,Interest, what there was of it,|000,000 fifth war loan goal today was forcused on contests for five — i minor offices. It was possible, of| (Continued on Page §—Column 3) course, that candidates might drop out in some of these before the convention opens at 10 a. m. tomorrow, letting the nominations go by default. While he has not formally announced, sources close to the state W——— ’ (Continued on Page 3—Column 4) Sam....67 0am... ale Dies 7am.....8 1llam.... Set. Edward Ragsd Sam... 60 12 (Noon).. 78 When Chute Fails. 9am..}. 7 ipm.... 7” 5 EY ANOTHER GOLD STAR will be hung in the window of the home of Capt. and 345 N. Ritter
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TS N Veterans of Pacific Come Home
P ooch 'Cries-Like ‘Baby’ In Reunion With His Owner
By HELEN RUEGAMER
Another Indianapolis soldier was home from the wars today. He is Pfc. Pooch, the 3-year-old husky bulldog owned by Charles
A veteran of the Pacific war, Pooch arrived home Monday, bring-
ing with him all the honorable discharge papers and war department letters accorded any soldier returning to civilian life after serving his
IN BOND DRIVE
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ernment proposed that the council concern itself “with
peaceful settlement of international disputes and with the
prevention of threats of the peace.”
peace or breaches of the
“There would also be an international court of justice
to deal primarily with justiciable disputes,” the President
said. “We are not thinking of
* Cherbourg, and a dispatch
country.
Quineville, Coast
HEADQUARTERS, London,
drove within 41% miles of the last German transport lines out of Cherbourg today, partially
captured the coastal town of ‘'Quineville, four miles above
a super-state with its own
UPER-FORTRESSES BOMB: JAPAN, TOKYO SAYS NARIANAS INVADED; RBOURG PARTIALLY ISOLATED
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Town, Is Taken By Yanks.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME
June 15.—American forces
isolating that great port, and to the northeast
Montebourg. ] Spokesmen here revealed that the Americans were shelling the west coast railroad and highway below
from Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s headquarters announcing the capture of Quineville said they had emerged from the area flooded by the Germans in swift advances across the waist of the Normandy peninsula. The Americans last were reported seven miles from the Cherbourg escape lines in their drive across the
waist of the peninsula and the new positions represented gains of 2%:
Although he's gradually resuming his pre-war habits and routine, Pooch is a changed dog. | He's still brown and white, with! four white stockinged feet, white) face and brown eye and ear, but he's thinner—a hardened veteran lof life in the army. The pensive ‘way his eyes follow soldiers down the street shows that his love of the uniform is ingrained deeply.
dogs; now he watches them disdainfully.
ready for action whenever he heard noises in the night or anyone approaching the Tucker home. Now he lies still and quiet. He used to understand when his master talked to him. Now everything has to be a command before he obeys. He's been taught the commands to “heel,” “sit,” “down,” and “stay.”
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VICHY FRENCH SEEK PETAIN OVERTHROW
Report Move to Declare War Against the Allies.
LONDON, June 15 (U.P.).—Vichy
increasing
retary of State Joseph
French collaborationists faced with sabotage and violence from underground armies were reported today to be seeking Hitler's permission to overthrow the Petain government and declare war on the allies.
A pro-Nazi group headed by Sec- . Darnand is organizing a coup, according to un-
‘Ernie Plays Gin Rummy in Midst of Death-Laden Ships
miles within a few hours against mounting resistance as the Nazis struggled to protect their escape alley out of Cherbourg. Three-Pronged Advance The United States assault forces were fanning out through Normandy in three directions, rolling up steady gains above Montebourg,
{below Carentan and westward
He used to live to fight with other 8Cross the waist of the peninsula and threatening to seal off comthe
He used ‘to jump, bark and be richest primary prize of the inva-
pletely the Cherbourg port,
{sion campaign.
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944
ttere afternoon and early evening thundershowers through tomorrow and Saturday.
police forces and other paraphernalia of coercive power,”
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Indianspolis
Postoflice 9, Ind. Issued dsily except Sunds
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the President said in the first authoritative, public outline
to come from this government. “We are seeking effective
ments through which the nations would maintain, according to their capacities, adequate forces to meet the
needs of preventing war and of ate preparation for war, and to
agreements and arrange-
making impossible deliberhave such forces available
United Press Staff
popping B-29 superfortresses.
Secret of B-29 Is Out; Flies Record Bomb Load
" By WARD COLWELL
WICHITA, Kas, May 4 (Delayed).—The army today permitted the Boeing Airplane Co, to pull back the flap of secrecy for the first public peek at the biggest battle baby of them all, the eye-
The mammoth B-29, designed by Boeing engineers to blast the axis from hitherto unattained altitudes far out of the reach of
Correspondent
effective anti-aircraft fire, has reduced the present heavyweights —the Flying Fortress and the Liberator—to the welterweight division. The B-29, which the war. department now has decided can be described in part to the American public, is a midwing, fourengine, all-metal monoplane which carries the greatest bomb load faster, farther and higher than any other airplane in existence. Half again as large as the Flying Fortress and Liberator, the
gross weight of the B-29 is twice as great and its speed compares favorably with the fastest fighter and pursuit planes. It has a wing span of 141.2 feet, a length of 98 feet and a height of 27 feet. (The Flying Fortress has a wing spread of 103 feet, a length of 75 feet and a height of 19 feet.) The. Super-Fortress is powered with four Wright cyclone engines, it was revealed, each rated at 3200 horsepower for takeoff and 2000 rated horsepower, nearly twice the power of the Flying Fortress.
GERMANS ONRUN AGAININN. ITALY
'Allied Troops Push Through Makeshift Defenses In Hills.
By ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 15.—Allied 5th and 8th army troops broke through the | makeshift German hill defenses on a broad front 50 to 80 miles above Rome and swept on to the north today, rounding up hundreds of battle-weary Nazi rear guards left behind by the fleeing enemy. German resistance cracked all the way from Tyrrhenian sea coast around the northern end of Lake Bolsena and down to Terni, 70
Striking westward on a nine-mile | front, the Americans were four and a half to slightly more than seven 'miles from the west coast railroad|in full retreat from the entire Adriand highways at a number of points|atic sector, pulling back so rapidly and already were pounding those vital Nazi arteries with their ar-
{ tillery.
West and northwest of Pont
{L’Abbe the Americans were within {41% to five miles of St. Sauveur-Le Vicomte, through which run the main west peninsula highway and! railroad from Cherbourg, as well as| the biggest canal on the peninsula. | Resistance Itense
The front running northwest from Carentan was a little over seven miles from La Haye-Du Puits, through which the highway and railroad also pass. German resistance became steadily more intense as the Americans approached the transport lines. The Nazis poured in reserves in an attempt to hold the tip of the peninsula or keep open an escape route for the evacuation of the Cherbourg garrison. Supreme headquarters disclosed that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's expeditionary force was expanding its gains above Montebourg, 14 miles from Cherbourg, west of
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|portant road junction of Grosseto,
miles east of the advanced allied
coastal columns. At the same time, the enemy was
that 8th army flying columns were unable to make contact with his covering rear guards. Nazis in Headlong Flight Fresh German reinforcements, rushed down from the north to stem the allied advance from Rome, were in headlong flight on the heels of the broken Nazi 14th army, after putting up a savage three-day battle in the hills bordering the Etruscan plain. American troops drove northward on the coastal highway to Bengodi, 8% miles north of Orbetello and less ‘than 15 miles short of the im-
while other elements fanned out to the east along highway 74 to join American spearheads pushing westward from Lake Bolsena. Seven miles inland from the
Russia's Navy And Artillery Blasting Finns
By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 15.—Soviet warships of the Baltic fleet steamed in close to the Karelian isthmus shore today and poured broadsides into Finnish strong points in support of three Russian columns battling their way northward within less than 37 miles of Vipuri. Concrete pillboxes and artillery emplacements were pulverized by the naval bombardment and by an artillery barrage laid down by Soviet guns arrayed wheel to wheel in some sectors, front dispatch reported. The maze of defenses built by the Finns on the Karelian isthmus in the nearly three years since they thrust to the approaches to
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1300 YANK BOMBERS RIP SUPPLY LINES
Vast Aerial Force Helps
Normandy Invaders.
LONDON, ‘June 15 (U. P). — A near record armada of 1300 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators smashed at German communications and supply lines behind hte Norman battlefields today, spearheading a full-scale allied aerial offensive in support of Anglo-Amer-ican invasion armies. - Powerful formations of American fighters supported the big striking force which ranged out from Bordeaux in southwest France to Beauvais, north of Paris, in the
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KERR IS KEYNOTER FOR DEMOCRATS
Governor of Oklahoma Backs 4th Term.
CHICAGO, June 15 (U. P).—
a stanch administration supporter, was selected today to deliver the
national convention which opens Chicago July 19. : Kerr, who was among
President Roosevelt,
of the
Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, keynote address at the Democratic|ing } the first
to advocate a fourth term for chairman
wake of two blistering night attacks on La Havre by the R. A. F. bomber command, which concentrated on the German E-boat pens along the Seine, river. : Railways junctions, bridges, airdromes and aircraft = assembly plants deep in France were battered.
| strafed military objectives.
U-BOAT HALTS CRAFT
tions.
see
PRICE FOUR CENTS
ZarWorld Council Of Peace-Loving Nations
for joint action when necessary.
“Accordingly, it is our thought that the organization would be a fully representative body with broad responsibilities for promoting and facilitating international cooperation, through such agencies as may be found necessary to consider and deal with the problems of world relaIt is our further thought that the organization
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China-Burma WASHINGTON, June 15
This first announced raid ported that American forces The Super-Fortresses hi » = -
Japs Report Americans Invade Under Cover of Dense Fog.
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio reported today American troops, under cover of a dense fog, invaded the west shore of Saipan island in the ‘Marianas this
morning after a four-day attack by a great United States Pacific fleet
ex| carrier-and-battleship task force.
The broadcast, recorded by United Press at San Francisco, was not immediately confirmed by any American source but if true fit meant that the American high command had carried its ground offensive against Japan to within 1500 miles of Tokyo. (A Japanese imperial headquarters communique broadcast by the Japanese Domei news agency and recorded by the FCC, said that U. S. troops had attempted to land this morning on Saipan and Tinian islands.) Tell of Two Attempts
The enemy broadcast asserted
Huge Planes Rip Nippon Homeland
From Undisclosed Air Bases in
-India Area.
(U. P.).—American “Super-
Fortress” B-29 bombers today attacked Japan proper in what Gen. George C. Marshall hailed as the opening step in the new-type offensive against the Japanese. The raid on the enemy’s homeland—the first carried out by American airmen since the famed Doolittle raid of 1942 —was announced by the war department in a brief statement which gave no details but said merely: “B-29 Super-Fortresses of the United States army air forces 20th bomber command bombed Japan today.”
by the new B-29’s came at a
time when U. S. forces were pushing back the enemy throughout the Pacific. Only today the Japanese radio re-
had landed in the Marianas
islands—only 1500 miles from Japan and a doorstep to American re-entry into the Philippines.
t Japan from distant bases
somewhere in the China-Burma-India theater, the war de«
partment disclosed. The China - Burma - India theater is a vast territory covering millions of square ‘miles. But Marshall pointed out that the B-29's are capable of striking from “remote bases” and indicated thaé they might have flown from almost any part of that theater.
Reveals New Air Force
The department's announcement disclosed for the first time the existence of the 20th air force, a new
organization which will have jurisdiction over all Super-Fortress activities. It was the first time the huge new “Super-Fortresses” were revealed to have been in action, although their existence has been known for some time. Information made public co-inci-dental with announcement of their attack revealed that they could have dropped their bombs from a height of more than 30,000 feet; that they could have cruised toward their objective at more than 300 miles an hour, and that they are half again as large as Flying Fortresses and Liberators.
Arnold Is Director
Gen. Marshall said since the power of the new bombers is so great, the 20th air force would not be confined to a single theater. The
OFF NEW ENGLAND
that the Saipan garrison was “inflicting heavy punishment on thei, .onyrg) control of the joint chiefs invaders” and that “heavy fighting” |r star with Gen. Henry H. Arnwas in progress, indicating that ify chief of the army air forces, there actually had been a landing, | girecting B-29 operations throughthe Americans may have gained a gut the world. foothold. “The planes will be treated as a Quoting a Domei news agency mgjor task force in the same mandispatch from “the Central Pa- ner as the naval task forces are dicific theater,” Tokyo radio said tWO rected against specific objectives,” landing attempts were made during Marshall said. a three-and-one-half-hour period| Arnold said the use of the ships Thursday morning. It claimed the in combat “brings actuality to an first was foiled but hinted the sec- [air forces’ plan made years in adond may have succeeded. vance for truly global aerial ware “Early Thursday morning, an fare” He hailed the B-29 as “a enemy task force including about 20 | highly complicated and most deadly transports appeared off Saipan is-|airplane, capable of delivering the land and from about 6:30 o'clock |heaviest blows yet known through attempted a landing,” Tokyo radio air power.” reported. “1 assume the heavy: responsibil“With full knowledge of the at-|ity for its employment under the
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new organization will remain under
Swarms of Lightnings, Mustangs & = and Thunderbolts dive-bombed and
Gannans Will Strike Hard Blow, but Fail, Stimson Says
WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P) , He said allied air operations wen 3 “major factor in the
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